because of the serious effect of that on others and it's being linked with the same man who thought to be a right wing extremist with anti muslim views on the seventeenth of july posted a twitter feed where he has said that one person with a belief is equal to the force of a hundred thousand who have only interests so he thought of posted radical tweets leading up to this attack initially a group including helpers of the global jihad came out and said that they took responsibility for the bombing but then they retracted that of course norway is. participating in the libyan and afghanistan war efforts as part of nato and just last winter there were dozens of islamic militants arrested throughout western europe in connection with with planned bombings police have told people to stay out of the city center to avoid using mobile phones the exits to the borders of norway were shot immediately after the laws and roads leading into and trains leading into

the capital were also holds it now we've we've heard that soldiers are on the streets with machine guns police also and it's being called the worst attack since world war two perhaps the worst shooting spree in history. i think police also discovered in late to disarm explosive devices on the on in the hotel where at least eighty people were shot dead on friday from on the possible motives behind the attacks let's cross now to a danish anymore to measure smith an r.t.s. but he's joining us now investigators believe the suspected gunman's political views may have pushed him to commit the crime what's your take on that. well we we have been getting new information through in the through in the night here and. right now the most. reliable. motive is that it is political of course we don't know anything yet because we are getting new information minute by minute and everybody is still in shock here and trying to get

a grip of what what really happened. some commentators are already suggesting the killings are the result of tensions between nationalism and multiculturalism is there any credence to that at this stage well it's it's becoming clear that that that might be one of the motives. of the killer here what i think is important to stress and realize is that this appears to be the act of one lunatic psychopath and a network of terrorists and things like that that we have seen earlier on but of course this stresses the necessity of or this stresses our vulnerability you say. our societies and we need to take a few measures in order to ensure that this will never happen again given what you say about that one person this is special initially fell on jihadist extremist

groups why did that happen. well we have seen many attempts in europe and in the world for many years now since nine eleven on terrorism that has been driven by jihadists and muslim extremists and regrettably due to that the first thought that bears the comes to mind when we when we are dealing with terror attacks is to get my feeling to do you have these images from the scene and i don't think we shall be frightened now that this will spread it seems as for the most recent. messages from the from the region intelligence service it seems that this is the awful act of one man that has acted very much on his own and therefore doesn't act on behalf of a terror group or a network that might have more attempts of terrorism in their plans what if i can just pick you up on that i mean should other european nations be on alert following

the bloodshed in norway always it more like to be an isolated domestic issue. well we always have to be alert because we are living in a time where terrorism regrettably has become a part of the reality but this incident i think is more similar to the shooting at pursuits that we've seen in schools and public areas in america and germany and things like that rather than to the to the terrorists hence we have seen attacks we have seen from islamist groups so i don't feel from the present knowledge that we have now i don't think that there is a reason why in the other european countries should shoot increase their awareness for now as long as we are what we are getting more and more closer to the knowledge of course report as long as we are pretty much confident that this is a an individual that has committed these awful crimes and not on a network that plans to do more of this kind after what i think it would be prudent to to get to hysteria all over europe you know why the sense that how will the

attacks affect the secure and safe image of scandinavian countries. well this is something. very shocking very new to everybody. we actually or at least i and i think many scandinavians were of the belief that we our police our intelligence service really had the facilities and the measures in order to prevent this from happening we have in numerous cases we have prevented attacks from terrorist groups islamist groups earlier on of course it's much more difficult to prohibit individual lunatics from doing. it if we as we have seen yesterday but there's of course once again questions whether the whether the police whether the intelligence service has the facilities and measures that are adequate to their to the situation that we're living in them

today and indeed you say individual lunatics in your opinion is it possible that one individual could organize an act of violence on this scale without support well it seems like that from the intelligence we have received so far it appears that that this psychopath has actually acted on his own hand and we have seen in germany in america in other places people going crazy with a with a shotgun and killing numerous peoples in shopping malls and schools and facilities like that and i think with the limited knowledge that we do have at this point that this act is more parallel to what we have seen in these cases than to the planned and well organized terror attacks with a huge network of. taliban or whatever behind it. came after they've definitely more to measure sneh today thank you very much indeed for

joining us. for more on this we can cross now live to help to lure us an advisor at the department for security and conflict management at the norwegian institute of international affairs thank you for joining us as well how are people in norway reacting to the charge to do that they feel their country is a safe place to be at the moment. well i mean it depends really very normally or i guess i mean here in all slowly you know the streets are empty people are obviously sitting back home watching television following the news but i don't think we should overstate how much in touch it really has more than ever in the beach and i do i mean of course those immediately affected. you know people families of people actually being killed the scores of people being killed for them this is devastating but the regions overall i think are taking it to relatively calm although you're a small nation and many people know which although of course this affects us as

well now at least ninety one people being killed and around at least one hundred injured now it's early days but do you think the attacks were planned by an individual an extremist political group. well. the information so far a start this might be a lone individual nationalist right being very conservative on to immigrant. probably planned this vellum for a long time. i mean it's it's still early days in terms of saying what's behind them the more people very behind but so far i think there is a relatively huge possibility that he acted alone but of course with extremely extreme determination. can you have a secure against one person's act to fix stream random violence that. short on to do that there's no i mean a person who hasn't a voice to sing tension in on the public for all who is not planning and organizing

together and with with with all the people it's a very difficult to truck in addition to. the legal sort of measures available to the police and the security services nor are they all limited as long as people are not conspiring together with other people or actively. encouraging violence so there is really no legal justification to keep them under surveillance and this person this thirty two year old a vision he has been voicing in radical opinions but no so far being found out advocating violent terrorist activities and that that means that the police are simply unable to keep track of them and. you know why the sense that there is anything in the current norwegian political climate that could be linked to these brutal scenes that the country has witnessed. well it is some in the heart of an increasingly. intense and heated debate about immigration.

about both immigration is doing to no beach culture multiculturalism is really not the bay to go forward marginalized in regions feel their voices are not being heard in the political establishment. and the reaching people have never been consulted democratically about whether a bump immigration on or not and that their political establishment is a sort of a elite that lives in areas which are depicted out they all white and that is lower class or regions who feel that immigrants are sort of getting into the territories removing them folded from the drugs lowering their salaries etc and there are no avail of all playing the democratic rules i guess dot so far seems to be the motivation of this person us well at the same time i mean he and others might take inspiration from the islamic terrorists seeing how

a very few number of people do have huge effects in the climate on political decisions taken by the us and policymakers it seems that when the blast shook the capital that the security forces were really concentrated in the downtown oslo. possibly diverting attention from the deadly shooting spree how do you assess the response of the country's security agencies. well. they vary they had drills and they're prepared for it it's a bomb bomb blast but i mean this the this coordinated sort of fly on sequence of events by this person it's a kind of sort of freak planned accident or happening that it's difficult to to. really prepare you for yourself from i mean zero four i mean it's it's the scenario is this difficult to proceed among the options of course there are limited

capabilities of the special forces in order and the region police and they too can find but i'm not sure if they're the reason why he were able to kill someone yet this small island i mean this is it's an island money and lots of young people he got on the island in a police uniform the police got there relatively quickly i mean given the fact that it's a sixty kilometers from most go but you know it's a very special very well planned very the term the non the it's very difficult to guard against this do you think then that given this that in the week government's approach towards national security is likely to change in the future. well i'm not sure if it will change i mean the fact that this was an ethnic no reachin means that i think that the reactions on the consequences for the region society is less and will be less than if this i've been an immigrant that is and been on the slim extremist being doing it then the voices start with braced or sort

of their rhythm ons for stricter laws more money for the security services etc would have gained the upper hand but just as it is now i think they will have a more nuanced debate some more money some more funds prop some changes to the law but i don't think it will have a major effect. ok vice department for security and conflict management in the region institute of international affairs thank you for joining us today. on the latest u.s. government's efforts to raise the country's fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling have collapsed after a republican opposition leader walked out of negotiations with president obama unless the government can agree to raise the debt by the second the country will be unable to pay its bills and will have to declare default and the effects are being

felt already the u.s. federal aviation authority which oversees all civil flights against the shutdown critics say that's it's unlikely. the solution taxes and spending cuts. new york restaurant or healthiest went on to the streets of the big apple to gauge public opinion on the taxation. would you be willing to pay more in taxes to save your government from bankruptcy this week let's talk about that yeah definitely would. spend. their spending. so do you trust your government to spend it correctly i don't trust any of the parts in our country a little bit how much is a little but. few percentage points more and that's about it that's about

it since fifty percent of the american public does not pay a nickel i would have a problem i believe everybody even if it's a dollar fifty everybody should be in the shared sacrifice plans of how much work you know if. you know why they want to wait for me when people. you know. you know you just spend a lot more money in taxes so that more people have my services that. you have to pay for people who aren't working as hard as you yeah yeah. yeah ok with that. yeah i think everybody should have it ok so i think it's ok because if you pay too much taxes you know you take the energy from people who want to work so much texas you have a better government like in the states that have better government they spend all

their money on crazy wars in iraq. so i would first stop the stupid wars and there you don't need a tax increase no matter how you feel about taxes the bottom line is you're probably always going to have to pay them but it's up to your government to use those funds well. the new has announced a new one hundred sixty billion euro bailout for greece even rating drops into the dreaded default category european leaders however made clear they pulled out of its part of debt at any cost but critics one agreeing that the cash injection was necessary for now that it's not nearly enough to get the u.n. back on its feet. president sarkozy has been saying in brussels you know greece is a special case it's received this special support from the europeans and other countries won't receive that but of course. do we believe that i'm not sure that we

do because it's inconceivable that the europeans wouldn't step in. and it's also i think inconceivable that even the resources now available to the financial stability fund the sort of nascent european monetary fund i think they wouldn't really be sufficient in the end it was a sort of battle between the bond markets and the italian government so i wanted to paint nightmare scenario is i don't think we're out of the woods yet. and living on russia's volga river tragedy recovery operation has taken a new turn a sunken pleasure cruise is being towed to shallow waters with will be prepared for transportation to shore where the vessel is filled with water which used to be prime tower records right enough to lift experts are eager to examine the ship to determine why exactly sent to get hundred forty people dead in the tragedy eight

still listed as missing the owner of the cruiser is under investigation or two people have already been charged with violating safety regulations. now media experts in the usa the mainstream outlets are sacrificing because of their choice of content they say it's become a trend to share the view with a flurry of sensationalism rather than important news was artie's alone this two reports u.s. big business and politicians could be the ones directing the shift in style. now to talk about some of today's biggest political stories it's the story behind the story whoa the editorial mission driving the mainstream news cycle and i just kind of sat back i was like wow this is it this is the speech played by the rules instructions coming straight from the top he said i was just in washington and people in washington tell me that they're concerned about your tone recently

departed m.-s. n.b.c. anchor jank ugur describes the talking to he alleges came from the head of the cable news network the talking to that drove him to leave the station and he said i love to be an outsider outsiders are cool but we're not we're insiders. we are there steps former insiders and analysts we interviewed say it's this way of thinking in the mainstream t.v. media that leads to a twenty four hour news cycle filled largely are willing to pay c.s. and eight the woman accused of killing her two year old little girl you would know if this is your underpants we now learn marina demanded a move al has been wowing her style coverage that an m.s.m. defector says it's cost stations their literate audience and credibility a lot of mainstream television news in particular is in the gutter you're just wasting your time with casey anthony stories with anthony weiner's wiener it's become a national joke and national shows that protects ad revenue and political currency

unlike the core hard hitting stories they would be stories that offend big corporations and big political power and that's why they're not covered it could explain why more reporters haven't covered for example a secret prison in somalia run by the cia journalist jeremy scahill exposed its secrets and says several other american reporters know about it too much instead this was the response to his story in the case of c.n.n. didn't even mention my report and just basically reprinted a press release from the cia saying that you know they were just assisting the somali government it could explain why networks are redoubling their efforts to cover hard hitting stories in his dead fresh off the successful ratings of the casey anthony trial you have a network like a.b.c. hiring former kidnapping victim elizabeth smart to cover missing children stories i mean they basically came out and said we need to do more missing children or missing people stories and so that's what they're going to do and that is going to

be a cost to other stories taking away from stories that affect people on a greater scale from jobs to inequality poverty wars and police brutality. the direction seems to be heading ever further in the direction of sensational. and tabloid which if rupert murdoch's news corp scandal is any indication could backfire ultimately that you're going to lose ratings you're going to lose viewers and you know ultimately you may be you may find yourself under investigation networks that pledge to lean forward or claim to be fair and balanced or they call themselves the most trusted name in news c defectors leaving to find an independent outlet if they want to try to live up to those mottos lauren lyster our washington d.c. . well the motivation behind sensation mr rove and frank grace journalism may be the pursuit for higher profits that's according to spar in a member of the young turks the brew movement the overall goal for the media right

now is to profit i mean they're constantly worried about ratings why are they worried about ratings because in the advertising department or in the sales department those ratings need to be presented to advertisers and if you are cut bait think that if you cover stories that are important stories on libya stories on the economy that americans are going to buy they want the sensationalism they're going to focus on the sensationalism there is an audience out there for it but it's discouraging because people are getting informed on the issues that are that are important to better the issues that actually affect them on a daily basis and if they think that's going to bring in the money in the ratings then that's what they're going to cover and i think that that's discouraging and i think they're wrong i think they're wrong on that point. well some of the international stories in brief for you now is the list militants in somalia say this still gunning most foreign aid agencies from working in the farming struck country militants denying u.n. reports that somalia is in a state of disaster statements propaganda

a severe drought has struck the region wondering millions in dire need of food and water the u.n. estimates tens of thousands already died from shortages. foreign ministers from north and south korea have broken the three year suspension of high level by lateral meetings on official talks took place immigration under barely a venue for the eighteenth regional forum of the association of southeast asian nations meeting is thought to be a positive step to possible future negotiations on the issue of nuclear weapons in the korean peninsula with korea quickly original talks back in two thousand and seven. nato has carried out fresh bombing runs on the libyan capital on saturday colonel gadhafi is headquarters proud serving company they remain unmarried and friday a crowd running for in support of the. has been ravaged by civil war since february the nato led coalition beginning airstrikes much. headlines in just

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this is our t. the main international headlines this hour the worst single shooting spree in modern history at least eighty four people have been killed i think youth camp in norway and a bomb ripped through the heart of the government district of a cover two also the killing at least seven the prime minister's office was hit delete it was not in the building at the time of the last. thirty two year old norwegian has been arrested and charged with committing both attacks the hope is of global jihad which we claim responsibility responds to me old enough again to stone

but later retracted the. course we'll keep you updated on developments in now the latest of a special reports we travel to russia's southern uro's region which boasts magnificent and unspoiled. mountain ranges and hills roll across the landscape intricate crests and rocks tower of centuries old trainees. even the water wind and rocks constantly vive supremacy they exist in a unique calm. deep holes in the. mines swift mountain streams and quiet springs flow from the ground. this is tied to a night nature's peculiar creation on the border between the urals inside syria it is the site of one of the brushes out of the way national parks.

where national park warden valentin gregorio is on duty he uses a customized off road vehicle with large wheels to move around forest cussing so the easiest way to the peaks of the ground tyga ny ridge you don't find roads or footpaths here. adventure enthusiastic so not put off by the hardships of the journey this group of tourists is from the city of chelyabinsk an industrial center in the urals the holiest rock climbing today that destination is the top of a cliff called a quick noisy crest waging across this mountain stream is a dangerous task even on a quiet warm day it's flow is still too fast. during the day the building takes food and fuel to the parks outposts and checks tourist trails and come sites. as. i'm valentine grigori of ranger the national resources.